Unlocked Literal Bible

The Unlocked Literal Bible is an openly licensed English translation of the complete Bible, produced not primarily for devotional reading but to serve as a source text from which translators can render Scripture into other languages. Drawn from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek of the biblical writings, it rests on a base consisting of original-language texts together with public-domain resources, an approach that keeps the work free of the licensing restrictions attached to most modern versions. Its translation philosophy is deliberately literal and source-oriented, following the wording and structures of the underlying texts closely so that features of the original remain visible to those working from it. Situated within the category of an open translation base, its distinctive character lies in its function: it stands closer to a translator's base text than to a commercial reading Bible, and it is associated with efforts to support Bible translation in languages that lack existing versions.